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"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
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"Literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people."
Art

"Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love."
Philosophy

"If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
Philosophy

"Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood."
Life

"My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house."
Love

"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."
Compassion

"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice."And when you do find one, observe with care, he said to the intern:"they almost always have crystals in their heart."
Observation

"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
Faith

"Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."
Memory

"There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was."
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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
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"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?"
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"The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.As the tag line of my favorite dirty joke would have it: "Keep your hat on. We could wind up miles from here."
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"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
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"The gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake."
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Personal Development

"Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces."
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"I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed."
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"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."
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Personal Development

"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."
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"It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing."
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